Hyperobjects Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World

Name: Hyperobjects Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World
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ISBN: 9780816689231

ISBN-10: 0816689237

ISBN-13: 9780816689231

Edition: 2013

Authors: Timothy Morton

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Having set global warming in irreversible motion, we are facing the possibility of ecological catastrophe. But the environmental emergency is also a crisis for our philosophical habits of thought, confronting us with a problem that seems to defy not only our control but also our understanding. Global warming is perhaps the most dramatic example of what Timothy Morton calls “hyperobjects”—entities of such vast temporal and spatial dimensions that they defeat traditional ideas about what a thing is in the first place. In this book, Morton explains what hyperobjects are and their impact on how we think, how we coexist with one another and with nonhumans, and how we experience our politics,…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 9/23/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English

Timothy Morton is Rita Shea Guffey Chair of English at Rice University.



Acknowledgments


A Quake in Being: An Introduction to Hyperobjects



What Are Hyperobjects?


Viscosity


Nonlocality


Temporal Undulation


Phasing


Interobjectivity



The Time of Hyperobjects


The End of the World


Hypocrisies


The Age of Asymmetry


Notes


Index